Emergency medical teams responded to several apparent drive-by shooting incidents on Sunday in central Israel, which emergency response service Magen David Adom said left one victim dead and six others wounded, including two seriously and three moderately.
The shootings, carried out between Kochav Yair and Tzur Natan are being treated as terror incidents.
A man in his thirties with gunshot wounds was pronounced dead while the wounded were evacuated to Meir Medical Centre in Kfar Saba and Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva.
Israel Police said that a shooting was reported at a petrol station in Kochav Yair, with two people wounded, according to medical officials.
The Israel Defence Forces said troops had been dispatched alongside other security personnel to the areas of Sal’it and Tzur Yitzhak following reports of multiple shooting incidents, where they said they neutralised a terrorist at the scene. Another suspect was also apprehended. Both men are Israeli citizens.
Soldiers and medical teams were conducting searches for additional terrorists and providing treatment to the wounded, while reinforcements were en route, the IDF said.
The IDF Home Front Command issued a terrorist infiltration alert at 11.49 am, calling on residents of the Sharon region and Tzur Natan to “enter a protected space immediately.”
Police from the Central District, including Tira station officers, were at the scene gathering evidence and searching for suspects.
The circumstances are under investigation.
Magen David Adom said earlier that a report was received at 10.40am of two men wounded on Route 5533 – a road that runs directly parallel to the Green Line and the West Bank security barrier - near Tzur Natan, where medics were treating two casualties, including one who was unconscious.
In a separate incident nearby, MDA said a report was received at 10.37am of a man wounded at the entrance to Tzur Yitzhak, with medics evacuating a 31-year-old man in moderate condition with a penetrating injury to Beilinson Hospital.
The Israeli prime minister’s office said Benjamin Netanyahu has held a situational assessment and “is monitoring the deadly shooting attack”.
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